"When you've sworn 100% fealty to your leader, no questions asked, you're bound to get caught on the wrong side of things once in awhile. Or a lot.
It was all fun and games for North Dakota U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer for the last couple of years under Donald Trump's presidency. Owning the libs was easy when unemployment was low and the stock market high. Cramer could smirk his way through Trump's incompetence and bigotry with a shrug and a dismissive one-liner.
Cramer still tries to do that, but when the losses pile up it's hard to fake it.
A botched response to a pandemic, an economic collapse and the bungling of nationwide protests against police brutality has taken some of the shine off Trump's star. All that winning, if that's what you can call the first three years of Trump's chaotic and disastrous presidency, came to a screeching stop.
Combine that with the closing of a huge coal-fired power plant in North Dakota, despite the Trump/Cramer pledge to save coal jobs, and the defeat of a Trump- and Cramer-backed candidate in the North Dakota treasuer's Republican primary and, well, it's been a tough few months for the president and his No. 1 fanboy in Congress."
It was all fun and games for North Dakota U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer for the last couple of years under Donald Trump's presidency. Owning the libs was easy when unemployment was low and the stock market high. Cramer could smirk his way through Trump's incompetence and bigotry with a shrug and a dismissive one-liner.
Cramer still tries to do that, but when the losses pile up it's hard to fake it.
A botched response to a pandemic, an economic collapse and the bungling of nationwide protests against police brutality has taken some of the shine off Trump's star. All that winning, if that's what you can call the first three years of Trump's chaotic and disastrous presidency, came to a screeching stop.
Combine that with the closing of a huge coal-fired power plant in North Dakota, despite the Trump/Cramer pledge to save coal jobs, and the defeat of a Trump- and Cramer-backed candidate in the North Dakota treasuer's Republican primary and, well, it's been a tough few months for the president and his No. 1 fanboy in Congress."